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This web-site looks at the signs of the street, based primarily on a total analysis of two inner-city streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, namely Leazes Park Road and Stowell Street, reported in Cook (2013), amplified by some signs from other parts of Newcastle and from Colchester, London and other cities. It is first drafts of bits of an eponymous book, to be published by Multilingual Matters, some of which have now been withdrawn as they are no longer compatible with the .
Language Roles in the Street - Indexicality of Street Signs - The Punctuation of Street Signs - Structures of Street Signs
SYSTEMS OF STREET SIGNS
1. Naming 2. Informing 3. Controlling 4. Serving
FONT VARIATIONS
- ALL CAPS - all lowercase - handwritten - relief and engraved - mixed lowerCase and Capitals Capitals
MATERIALS
- stone - metal - paper - painted - blackboards
MISC
Signs with list structures
- Chinatowns
See also: Bilingual Notices
- Novel shop names
Street signs in:
Colchester Dublin Newcastle upon Tyne Penang Perugia Northumberland
REFERENCES
Cook, V.J. (2017), 'The letters of the street', rejected paper, now part of a book in progress
Cook, V. J. (2013), 'The language of the street', Applied Linguistics Review, 4(1): 43-81, DOI 10.1515/applirev-2013-0003
Cook, V.J. (2013), 'Standard punctuation and the punctuation of the street', in M. Pawlak and L. Aronin (eds.), Essential Topics in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 267-290
Cook, V.J. (2014), 'Meaning and material in the language of the
street', Social Semiotics, http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/
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Other paper still offline:
- Naming in the language of the street
This page was formerly at homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c, which is now closed.